BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- With the country's parliamentary elections slated for Thursday and early voting already under way, a truck carrying what are believed to be fake ballots was detained in the Iraqi border province of Wasit, the U.S. military said Tuesday.

U.S. investigators were being sent to examine the ballots in Wasit, located on the Iranian border southeast of Baghdad.

The truck's driver was Iranian, as was the truck's license plate, said an Iraqi Interior Ministry source. Authorities are investigating reports that other vehicles with possible fake ballots have been trying to cross the border into Iraq.

If the American administration "Architects of Democracy" have anything at all to do this Pro-Shiite / Anti-Sunni vote hijacking, that's evidence we've not just a slippery slope to US election theft here, but a sheer Grand Canyon freefall.

11. Perhaps it was the same truck the SAS commandos on a bombing run used?

WEll well,well all it shows is that the election is a rush to establish sectarian turf.- The Pentagon funded, trained,armed death squad militias, et al will help do the rest.-Hey if it worked in Colombia, and El Salvador why knock a good thing

OH_ about those 2 SAS--commandos as suicide bombers>?-Initial BBC reports stated that Iraqi police had stopped- 2 SAS UK commandos, in a truck full of weapons and explosives, dressed as ARABS. Of course subsequent reports omitted a few details. Guess which ones? illegal codesmilie_remote(' ')

http://www.witnesstorture.org / Don't be complicit with torture anymore. Sign the Solidarity Letter and write your Congresspersons and the media to give these courageous people public awareness.

U.S. Catholic activits to march on Guantanamo prisonBy Esteban Israel Reuters

HAVANA, Dec 6 (Reuters) - A group of 25 American Catholic peace activists, defying a U.S. travel ban to Cuba, will set out on Wednesday from the Communist island on a 50-mile (80.5-km) trek to the U.S. Guantanamo Navel Base aiming to protest conditions for terrorism suspects.

The priests, nuns and academics belonging to "Witness Against Torture" apparently arrived in Cuba as tourists from a third country, breaking U.S. restrictions on travel to the Caribbean island.

The group plans to leave from eastern Santiago de Cuba and arrive at the base on Saturday, International Human Rights Day, and demand to see prisoners on a hunger strike.

=Lt. Coronel Egalberto Rivera, of the Cuban Military, explains to the group "Witness Against Torture" that the white line is the boundry where the Cuban militarized zone begins, which borders the Guantanamo Naval Base occupied by the U.S. military. Photo by Scott Langley

=I am probably the only person on this trip who would never identify themselves as a Christian. But I feel like this journey is trying to tell me something.

I can only refer to our progress as miraculous.

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over and over again on this journey, i have been reminded of the sinester genious of my government and the suffering of thousands of people unjustly held under its rule. as we walk towards the infamous US military base at Guantanamo Bay and talk to people along the way, we reflect on the crimes taking place there--in our name, with our tax dollars and with our tacit consent. Nominated

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The head of Iraq's border guards denied police reports on Wednesday that a tanker truck stuffed with thousands of forged ballot papers had been seized crossing into Iraq from Iran before Thursday's elections.

"This is all a lie," said Lieutenant General Ahmed al-Khafaji, the chief of the U.S.-trained force which has responsibility for all Iraq's borders.

"I heard this yesterday and I checked all the border crossings right away. The borders are all closed anyway," he told Reuters.

Iraq's frontiers are closed for the period of the election.

"I contacted all the border crossing points and there was no report of any such incident," Khafaji said.

Interior Minister Bayan Jabor also denied the reports, which the New York Times ran prominently, quoting a single unnamed Interior Ministry source, and said it was an attempt to discredit the election process.

The Times story said a tanker packed with partly filled-in ballots had been stopped by border police at the town of Badra, east of Baghdad, after entering from Iran.

The driver had told the border police that three other tankers had entered Iraq at other crossings with forged ballots, the unnamed source told the Times.

Khafaji said that when he established the reports were false he tracked the source of the rumor, and said it appeared to have come from the Defense Ministry's intelligence unit.

The ministry denied any involvement.

The reports had raised concerns that Shi'ite Iran, which has close links with two powerful Islamist Shi'ite parties in the Iraqi government, was attempting to influence the election.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The head of Iraq's border guards denied police reports on Wednesday that a tanker truck stuffed with thousands of forged ballot papers had been seized crossing into Iraq from Iran before Thursday's elections.

"This is all a lie," said Lieutenant General Ahmed al-Khafaji, the chief of the U.S.-trained force which has responsibility for all Iraq's borders.

"I heard this yesterday and I checked all the border crossings right away. The borders are all closed anyway," he told Reuters.

Iraq's frontiers are closed for the period of the election.

"I contacted all the border crossing points and there was no report of any such incident," Khafaji said.

Interior Minister Bayan Jabor also denied the reports, which the New York Times ran prominently, quoting a single unnamed Interior Ministry source, and said it was an attempt to discredit the election process.

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